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“Even you don’t get a say in which parts of us are taken first, Riorson.” Jack laughs. “But speaking from personal experience, control goes quickly. Just look at you, freshly fed from the source and already down here, desperate for a cure.
“Pain isn’t a competition,” I assure him. “There’s always enough to go around.”
Her long silver braid swings free of her hood as her attention whips in our direction,
“Tell me something, Violence.”
“Why is it always you?”
“I highly doubt the Treaty of Aretia was written in a matter of hours.” “The initial phase was thirteen days of negotiation.” I
An academic weapon
“Shh, it’s more fun when she blows shit up,” Ridoc whispers.
“And to think, you could have been wasted on the Scribe Quadrant.”
Is it just me? Or does my pillow smell like you? Yours, —X
In the middle of war?! A man.
“And he’s not my boyfriend.”
“That’s far too casual a term for what we are.”
“Come on, Violence.
“Because you’re the only one capable of killing me.”
“Yes, love, I’m jealous.”
“I’m jealous of the armor that holds you when I can’t, the sheets on your bed that caress your skin every night, and the blades that feel your hands.
can burn venin.” “I’ve told you a dozen times, first fire burns the hottest, which could explain the phenomenon,” Tairn replies. “This mission is dangerous enough without adding a desirable target for any lurking dark wielders.”
“Are you trying to tell me that you can freeze the water in someone’s body
“So, I’m not here with the authority of a professor,”
Deverelli, known to our kingdom as the treacherous isle of merchants, who to my surprise may not have been the source of the arms, but perhaps the broker.
“No power. No lure. No taunting reminder that I can save everyone if I just reach for it and take what’s offered. It’s only…peace.”
Our poor tortured man
“And you must be Asher Sorrengail’s daughter, here to collect the books he wrote for you.”
Now we can only hope the bond between our daughters is strong enough to endure the paths they’ve chosen. They’ll need each other to survive.
Well, he described you almost perfectly, Dain Aetos.”
Lol not calling xaden dain🤧
“Everyone assumes she’ll wind up with you, but it’s my last name she ends up wearing on her flight jacket in formation.”
“You know your value,” Narelle says softly with a nod. “Your father would be proud. Get her the books.”
love. Marriage is a necessary evil to secure the line. Nothing more. Save love for your children.
want you from the second I wake until the moment I fall asleep. I dream about you.”
“Yes, the table is broken. Now, what do you need?” “You two totally broke it, didn’t you?” Ridoc asks on the edge of laughter. “Like that armoire no one was supposed to notice getting hauled out of her room during first year?”
The brunette’s silver-tipped braid swings against her back as she scoops up a younger child and is ushered inside.
Isle of Dunne by Second Lieutenant Asher Daxton
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“The same thing everyone in the isles craves.” She pauses and looks back over her shoulder. “Dragons.”
Xaden reaches across me and wraps his hand over my hip like I need protection. “Mom.”
Getting greedy, Violence.”
Tyrrendor regains its sovereignty, which is why a lifetime alliance”—her
“My father helped.” He clutches the antidote. “The eyes. I should have recognized your eyes. You’re Asher Daxton’s girl.”
“Violence,” Xaden demands.
“That’s why you have to become better than me. There’s only you.”
“Her name is Broccoli, not that,” he mutters. She looks at him like he’s sprouted whiskers. “You named a kitten Broccoli?” “No one really wants broccoli, but it’s good for you, so seems fitting to me.”
My breath falters. We didn’t find the irids; they found us. We did it. They’re here
then crouches down, then pulls a lever on the inside of his prosthesis. A flat, two-inch-wide piece of metal with a curved end pops out of the toe of his boot. “And it’s not my first time. I need a second opinion because it didn’t go so well for me yesterday.” “You made that?” It’s pretty damned cool. “Yeah.”
“I can’t mend him.”
“Xaden. I can’t mend him, Vi. I tried every day that he was here last week.”
“Then I launched for Tirvainne and ended up in our home.”
I knew it could take me back to day zero, and day zero doesn’t give me you. I clawed my way back to myself and left.”
“Even when I’m not entirely…me, whatever I am still craves
you, needs you, only wants you.”
I’d ignore that you’re the only form of peace I’ve ever known and put a thousand miles between us because stable still isn’t whole.”
only two require a lifetime of dedication: Dunne and Loial. For both war and love change souls irrevocably.
“The complete awe I feel when I remember that you’re mine.” I stroke my hands over his shoulders and down his chest. “That by some miracle, I’m the one who gets to touch you.”
